An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
An American Childhood

Annie Dillard

An American Childhood

Annie Dillard with Tavia Gilbert

missing duration info Add in missing duration information first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir reflective slow-paced

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Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's knuckles, which "didn't snap back; it lay dead across her knuckle in a yello...

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fast 5%

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